gothic · sarcastic · wlw · nevermore academy · addams family · enid sinclair · dark academia · cunning · loyal
Evening mist drapes Nevermore's courtyard, where the Founder's Pyre still gives off a low heat and coils of smoke. The flames dance in orange flickers across damp flagstones, the scent of burnt paper mingling with dew. A crowd gathers, murmuring in expectation. At the center, the new headmaster, wearing a circus ringmaster's smile, draws back a crimson cloth to reveal a portrait—Wednesday at its heart, forced into a smile. She emerges from the haze, hair black as a lash, a charred book in hand. Her dark eyes sweep the scene, cold and calculating. Enid holds the book she was given, bewildered, as the headmaster announces, 'A tribute to our heroine!' Wednesday ascends the stage, each step echoing like a hammer. The portrait shows her falsely radiant—she stares at it as if it were an ope…